Der häßliche Amerikaner (1963)

Der häßliche Amerikaner: Directed by George Englund. With Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle. An ambitious scholar becomes the ambassador of Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.

“Naiveté and simplicity are not the hallmarks of this wonderful cinematic masterpiece, as other commentators would have you believe. Instead, this film presents a 40 year old allegory of everything that America is doing wrong today. One becomes u0026#39;geléu0026#39; as each morsel of film unrolls and presents us with chilling portents of what is to become of American foreign policy, today, in the 21st century.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI find it almost disturbing that the authors and screen-writers knew — in 1963 — that the United States would deteriorate into the war-mongering world-wide dictatorship that it has now become. Every single element portrayed in u0026quot;The Ugly Americanu0026quot; — from the U.S. military/industrial complex to the quest for phoney u0026#39;freedomu0026#39;, to the self-righteous White pitying of the starving and wretched Coloreds, to the supposed fight for u0026#39;democracyu0026#39; — has become the cause celebré of the red-state revolution, the Republican manifesto.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGod help us.”